Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Ivory Coast musicians defies al-Qaeda in song
Ivorian musicians have collaborated
to release a song saying they are "not afraid" after Islamist
militants killed 19 people on a beach.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM) said it was behind the attack earlier this month.
The song"Meme Pas Peur", meaning not a bit afraid, was filmed on Grand Bassam
beach, where the gunmen opened fire.
The lyrics, sung in French, include
the lines "you kill innocents for lost causes" and "you won't go
to paradise".
The defiant lyrics insist "in
Ivory Coast, we're on our feet".
Some lyrics are directed at the
militants including: "What are you doing on the beaches? Because of 70
virgins, you kill innocent people.
"In the name of God, you there,
you won't go to paradise".
And some are critical of the AQIM's
interpretation of Islam, arguing "Islam is a religion that promotes love,
you kill innocents for lost causes".
The song's producer Chico Lacoste said
he decided to make a song to "tell the whole world that: 'Yes it's true
that Ivory Coast has been hit but we have not fallen down'".
The BBC's Tamasin Ford in Abidjan
says music is a typical reaction to a crisis in Ivory Coast and was used to ask
for their war to stop and push for reconciliation.
A song has even been released in
reaction to the bird flu epidemic, our correspondent adds.
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